pierced gallery and gadroon border, engraved with the crest and motto of Primrose, Earls of Rosebery, and fitted with two detachable silver-mounted cut-glass bottles with hinged lids, and a small single bottle instand, gadroon bordered square, with silver-mouted cut-glass bottle, Streeter & Co. Ltd., London, 1900, 9cm., 3 1/2in. wide

Garrard & Company Ltd., The Marchioness of Crewe, Inventory of Plate at West Horsley, 20 December 1950, p.7.

marks and condition good apart from one corner of the inkstand which is a little bent; a few very small chips to the glass bottles
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